Editing Hydrocodone (section)

===Available forms===
{{See also|Hydrocodone/paracetamol|Hydrocodone/ibuprofen|Hydrocodone/aspirin}}

Hydrocodone is available in a variety of formulations for oral administration:<ref name="McPherson2009">{{cite book|vauthors=McPherson ML|chapter=Appendix: Opioid Formulations|title=Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations: A Guide for Effective Dosing|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6oBA9z5wl9wC&pg=PA187|date=24 August 2009|publisher=ASHP|isbn=978-1-58528-297-5|pages=187–188|access-date=23 September 2016|archive-date=12 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112203400/https://books.google.com/books?id=6oBA9z5wl9wC&pg=PA187|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Odom-ForrenDrain2008">{{cite book|vauthors=Odom-Forren J, Drain C|title=PeriAnesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2DxxrrJafncC&pg=PT751|date=11 February 2008|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-1-4377-2610-7|pages=751–|access-date=23 September 2016|archive-date=12 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112203347/https://books.google.com/books?id=2DxxrrJafncC&pg=PT751|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Skidmore-Roth2013">{{cite book|vauthors=Skidmore-Roth L|chapter=Hydrocodone|title=Mosby's Drug Guide for Nursing Students, with 2014 Update|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r71EBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA524|date=27 June 2013|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-0-323-22268-6|pages=524–|access-date=23 September 2016|archive-date=12 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112203414/https://books.google.com/books?id=r71EBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA524|url-status=live}}</ref>

* The original oral form of hydrocodone alone, Dicodid, as immediate-release 5- and 10-mg tablets is available for prescription in Continental Europe per national drug control and prescription laws and Title 76 of the Schengen Treaty, but [[dihydrocodeine]] has been more widely used for the same indications since the beginning in the early 1920s, with hydrocodone being regulated the same way as [[morphine]] in the German [[Betäubungsmittelgesetz]], the similarly named law in Switzerland and the Austrian [[Suchtmittelgesetz]], whereas dihydrocodeine is regulated like [[codeine]]. For a number of decades, the liquid hydrocodone products available have been cough medicines.
* Hydrocodone plus [[homatropine]] (Hycodan) in the form of small tablets for coughing and especially neuropathic moderate pain (the homatropine, an anticholinergic, is useful in both of those cases and is a deterrent to intentional overdose) was more widely used than Dicodid and was labelled as a cough medicine in the United States whilst Vicodin and similar drugs were the choices for analgesia.
* Extended-release hydrocodone in a time-release syrup also containing chlorphenamine/[[chlorpheniramine]] is a cough medicine called Tussionex in North America. In Europe, similar time-release syrups containing codeine (numerous), dihydrocodeine (Paracodin Retard Hustensaft), nicocodeine (Tusscodin), [[thebacon]], [[acetyldihydrocodeine]], [[dionine]], and [[nicodicodeine]] are used instead.
* Immediate-release hydrocodone with [[paracetamol]] (acetaminophen) (Vicodin, Lortab, Lorcet, Maxidone, Norco, Zydone)
* Immediate-release hydrocodone with [[ibuprofen]] (Vicoprofen, Ibudone, Reprexain)
* Immediate-release hydrocodone with [[aspirin]] (Alor 5/500, Azdone, Damason-P, Lortab ASA, Panasal 5/500)
* Controlled-release hydrocodone (Hysingla ER by [[Purdue Pharma]], Zohydro ER)<ref name="VadiveluSchermer2016">{{cite journal | vauthors = Vadivelu N, Schermer E, Kodumudi G, Berger JM | title = The Clinical Applications of Extended-Release Abuse-Deterrent Opioids | journal = CNS Drugs | volume = 30 | issue = 7 | pages = 637–646 | date = July 2016 | pmid = 27290716 | doi = 10.1007/s40263-016-0357-0 | s2cid = 26878027 }}</ref>
Hydrocodone is not available in [[parenteral]] or any other non-oral forms.<ref name="ChabnerLongo2010" /><ref name="ElliottSmith2016" />